First report of serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from an adult patient with invasive infection in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated from a 67-year-old Japanese patient with meningitis. This isolate was susceptible to penicillin G, while genotyped as gPISP with a mutation in a penicillin-binding motif in PBP2b. The 23B isolate was assigned to ST11996 that is related to CC439, a dominant group among serotype 23B.

SUBMITTER: Takamatsu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388934 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature